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What exactly does an academic historian do?

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When and why did men start wearing ties?

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Under China's one-child policy, did rich couples pay poor couples to raise a second child as their own? ie "buying their one child allotment": Rich couple has a boy, also want a girl, so the mom gets preggo again, delivers the baby in rural area, and pay a farmer couple to say it's their kid.

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How do Historians utilise/analyse hagiography and miraculous events in historical data?

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How much of an economic impact did Great Britain suffer after releasing the American colonies?

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To what extent was the maintenance of civil peace between rival religious sects a motivating factor of the drafters of the US Constitution & amendments?

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Why did the Red Scare occur in the USA and not somewhere like West Germany?

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How similar were ancient Greek Colonies in Southern Italy to their ancestral homelands?

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How did Stanford become one of the preeminent American universities? Harvard and Yale, for example, are much older and had more time to grow in prestige and endowment, to my knowledge.

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Why did the Spanish and Portuguese mix with the natives more often than the English did (inclunding in areas where there wasn't dense Indian populations)?

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What exactly does an academic historian do?	19
When and why did men start wearing ties?	19
Under China's one-child policy, did rich couples pay poor couples to raise a second child as their own? ie "buying their one child allotment": Rich couple has a boy, also want a girl, so the mom gets preggo again, delivers the baby in rural area, and pay a farmer couple to say it's their kid.	19
How do Historians utilise/analyse hagiography and miraculous events in historical data?	19
How much of an economic impact did Great Britain suffer after releasing the American colonies?	19
To what extent was the maintenance of civil peace between rival religious sects a motivating factor of the drafters of the US Constitution & amendments?	19
Why did the Red Scare occur in the USA and not somewhere like West Germany?	19
How similar were ancient Greek Colonies in Southern Italy to their ancestral homelands?	19
How did Stanford become one of the preeminent American universities? Harvard and Yale, for example, are much older and had more time to grow in prestige and endowment, to my knowledge.	19
Why did the Spanish and Portuguese mix with the natives more often than the English did (inclunding in areas where there wasn't dense Indian populations)?	19